IV 



Seeing Things 



BROWSING around in the library 

 the other day, I came across some 

 old school books that had somehow 

 survived the wreckage of several differ- 

 ent homes. Such household effects as 

 carpets, rugs, beds, chairs, bureaus, 

 "high-boys," dishes, draperies, dogs, 

 cats, canaries and gold fish do not 

 always live through family hegiras 

 and mutations, but books old school 

 books in particular seem to have nine 

 lives. A really human interest attaches 

 to them because certain individual 

 characteristics are in most cases in- 

 delibly stamped upon them; and these, 

 viewed in after years, in the light of 

 subsequent developments, are often 



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